Research

Publications

1. “Aggregate earnings surprises, monetary policy, and stock returns” (with Lindsey Gallo and Rebecca Hann), Journal of Accounting & Economics, 2016.

2. “Regulations and brain drain: Evidence from the career choices of Wall Street star analysts” (with Yuyan Guan, Hai Lu, and Franco Wong), Management Science, 2019.

• Featured in Research Briefs in Economic Policy,  No. 204, Cato Institute, March 4, 2020. 

3. “Gender and beauty in the financial analyst profession: evidence from the United States and China” (with An-Ping Lin, Hai Lu, and Kevin Veenstra), Review of Accounting Studies, 2020.

• ​Featured in Institutional Investor magazine: “Gender and beauty biases exist in our society regardless of how competitive an industry is, and stereotypes and bias may be rooted deeply in the culture and legal environment.” See our study on the all-star analyst's vote and the article featuring the findings in the Institutional Investor magazine in October 2019.

4. “Happy Analysts” (with Ole-Kristian Hope, An-Ping Lin, and MaryJane Rabier), Accounting, Organizations and Society, 2021.

• 2018 Asian Accounting Associations Conference Best Paper Award

• ​​Featured by the Varsity on September 15, 2021

5. “Another look at the macroeconomic information content of aggregate earnings” (with Rebecca Hann and Maria Ogneva), The Accounting Review, 2021.

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6. “Is Silence Golden Sometimes? Management Guidance Withdrawals During the COVID-19 Pandemic” (with Ole-Kristian Hope, Mark Ma, and Xijiang Su), Review of Accounting Studies, 2023.

• Featured by Columbia Law School’s Blue Sky Blog on October 19, 2021

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7. “The Effect of Social Skills on Analyst Performance” (with An-Ping Lin and Hai Lu), Contemporary Accounting Research, 2023.

8. “Corporate Financing Activities and Business Cycle Fluctuations” (With Rebecca Hann, Hanna Lee, and Laurel Mazur), The Accounting Review, 2025.

Working Papers:

9. “Does the All-Star Award Affect Analysts’ Performance? Evidence from a Regression Discontinuity Design and the Field” (With Hai Lu and Shaokun Li), Accepted, Contemporary Accounting Research, presented at the 38th CAR Conference in October 2023.

10. “Navigating Workforce Growth in the Great Resignation: The Role of Diversity and Inclusion Satisfaction and Its Boundary Conditions” (with Hun Lee, Mark Ma, and John Yang), Revise & Resubmit.

11. “The Effect of Foreign Ownership on U.S. Firms’ Governance and Financial Transparency” (with Ole-Kristian Hope, and Mark Ma), Revise & Resubmit.

12. “The spillover of value relevant information about target peers during acquisitions” (with Danmo Lin, and MaryJane Rabier), Revise & Resubmit. 

13. “Accountants with Artificial Intelligence Skills and Management Earnings Forecast” (with Mark Ma, Michael Shen and John Yang), Revise & Resubmit.

Pedagogical Working Papers (i.e., Cases)

​14. “Lessons from Silicon Valley Bank Using Analytics to Extract Public XBRL Data and Evaluate Financial Firms” (with Amy Yurko), Revise & Resubmit.

Conferences Presented or Attended

2026: Hawaii Accounting Conference (scheduled)
2025: Hawaii Accounting Conference, AAA Sustainability, ESG and Accounting, HKU Summer Accounting Conference
2024: MAS Midyear Meeting, AAA Sustainability, ESG and Accounting
2023: Contemporary Accounting Research Conference

2022: Contemporary Accounting Research Virtual Event on Textual Analysis

2021: Review of Accounting Studies Conference, Contemporary Accounting Research Virtual Event on Textual Analysis, Contemporary Accounting Research Conference, The American Accounting Association Annual Meeting, FARS Midyear Virtual Meeting; The University of Technology Sydney (UTS) 2021 Online Summer Accounting Conference

2020: Review of Accounting Studies Conference

2019: Annual Conference on Financial Economics & Accounting (CFEA), New York, NY

2018: Asian Bureau of Finance and Economic Research (ABFER), Singapore; China International Conference in Finance (CICF), Tianjin, China; The American Accounting Association Annual Meeting, Washington, DC

2017: NTU-SMU-NUS Accounting Research Conference, Singapore; EAA Annual Meeting, Valencia, Spain; Asian Bureau of Finance and Economic Research (ABFER), Singapore; China International Conference in Finance (CICF), Hang Zhou, China; MIT Asia, Hang Zhou, China; SMU-NCCU Conference, Taipei, Taiwan; PCAOB-JAR conference, Washington D.C.; Annual Conference on Financial Economics & Accounting (CFEA), Philadelphia, PA

2016: SMU-NTU-NUS Accounting Research Conference, Singapore; Asian Bureau of Finance and Economic Research (ABFER), Singapore; The American Accounting Association Annual Meeting, New York, NY; Temple Research Conference, Philadelphia, PA; SMU-UTS-UNSW Conference, Sydney, Australia; Accounting Ph.D. Rookie Recruiting and Research Camp, Miami, FL; SMU Symposium, Singapore 

2015: FARS Midyear Meeting, Nashville, TN; SMU-Four Korean Schools Conference, Seoul, Korea; SMU Symposium, Singapore

2014: DC Area Accounting Symposium, Washington D.C.; Journal of Accounting and Public Policy Conference, College Park, MD; The American Accounting Association Annual Meeting, Atlanta, GA; AAA/Deloitte/J. Michael Cook Doctoral Consortium, Westlake, TX; Accounting Ph.D. Rookie Recruiting and Research Camp, Miami, FL

2013: DC Area Accounting Symposium, Fairfax, VA; AAA FARS Doctoral Consortium and FARS Midyear Meeting, San Diego, CA; The American Accounting Association Annual Meeting, Los Angeles, CA

2012: The American Accounting Association Annual Meeting, Washington D.C.
2011: DC Area Accounting Symposium, Washington D.C.

2010: Annual Conference on Financial Economics & Accounting (CFEA), College Park, MD